What is the correct spelling of Bar chord?
Occasionally I respond to questions here, and I try to be correct in my answers, but in my literature and online investigations I've seen Bar-chord spelled or misspelled at least three different ways, Bar-chord, Barr chord, and Barre chord. Is each spelling acceptable or is one correct and the others incorrect?
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In music, a bar is (in U.K. at least!) the name of a compartment in the written music, flanked by two barlines.
Barr doesn't seem to exist as a word - although in the West Midlands there are Great Barr and Perry Barr districts in B'ham.
Barre is the one in most common use, often spelled with an acute accent over the e.
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